San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-28
R0SWELL'S WARD.

not more than ordinary intelligence 10 war
rant any ones interest in her She is not re-
lated TO him-she is not the legacy Of some
inamorata; yet he has adopted her, is TO edu-
cate her a Ia Anglaise, and, as the title and
Roswell hall revert TO Carmean, she will be
endowed with his own private fortune
FathOm the mystery; solve the problem
Roswell, the adamantine soul, the most skep-
teal unprincipled piece of humanity that
ever breathed-severe in his Judgment of all
women-prohouncing them all treacherous
and false, leaves Granada with a promise to
pilot brown, elfish child "along this feeting
shore"
Perhaps he will educate, then marry her
no woman will ever elicit his commentator
unless nodded after the design his conserva-
tive ideas prescribe.
Thereby hangs a tale.' Carmean Ros-
well is converted He left sinner, returns
a saint.
Worshiped at the shrine of q brown eyed
nun, conjecture, and she intrusted pro-
tege to his care as a slight tribute of her re-
gard, etc, etc.-drink TO my acute powers of
divination. Am right, duke'
No; order more Cognac-ice the cham
payne, and | will give you an authentic ver-
sion Roswell is my friend and he prefers
London's enlightenment TO architectural de
signs upon so slight foundation as a child.
The bull ring at Madrid, the Plaza de
Toros, is crowded with its 1900 spectators;
crashing music, punctuated by tumults from
the crowd, roaring bulls, deafening cries of
aquadoTes with water jars, old women with
pomegranates and oranges, now and then
glimpses of fighters in tawdry glaring para
phernGlia, relays of horses and a profusion
of tinsel; all this permeated with excitement
and expectation. The Gaceta has devoted
columns to the praise of a young torera-a
woman who rivals in skill, agility and ar
tistic strokes the muscular men who have
reigned here; and there is something novel
for the fiery southern children in having a
woman risk her life in so daring and blood
curdling occupation. The royal box is
empty, but around the forest of forms sit
nobility and the highest meteors of the land
In prominent box, and with the party of a
Spanish nobleman, enters an Englishman,
and his inhexible almost snecring counter
ance shares the gaze that is riveted on the
beauty by his side-the cynosure of all eyes.
What an antithesisl She young, brilliant,
and possessing beauty in the speculative de-
gree; he not more than score and a half,
but his stalwart form and Atlantean Shout
ders crowned by a gloomy, cynical face that
trouble, not years, have aged. He leaves the
box to speak to an English attache who has
entered an adjacent compartment An
elderly lady turns TO the lovely dona with
this mandate:
''lnez, abandon the diplomacy you affect
with that man. Why do you wish to fiirt
with him2 l hear that something has dark
ened his life-a woman, | suppose for his
speeches about them are Decorating. dis
like to see you smile or talk with such a
giaour. l am unacquainted with his past,
but | know he seeks to submerge memories
in dissipation OF the widest kind He not
only drinks and CANDLES, but his life is I'M
hallOwed in every way. He is a gentleman
by birth and his status demands that your
father should not ignore his presence in
Madrid, but he expects you to keep him at
antipOdeS"
'Money and birth covereth a multitude of
sins, duchessa," and a gay, light laugh COM
plements the remark ''It is requisite that
he should fall in love-it will prove an alkali
to his acid temperament and divorce him
from this irrational life"
Her vanity supersedes her wisdom and she
imagines him already her vassal. "a re-
bellious spirit is worth conquering. have
flung away hearts as lightly as would I'M
ripe olives, but to own his would be holding
the unattainable Sappho's apple No one can
resist my charms-he will be plastic in nv
hands. / will reform, mold him to my
mood
The entrance of the Englishman terminates
bravados, and conversation gravitates to the
girl who killed bulls in recent corida, and
who appears. today. Dona Inez is a fem
inine sword of Damocles for a vulnerable
hearted mana beautiful, soulleSs coquette,
whose Theology is to ensnare and vanquish
Her costume is studied; a large mantilla-
that most dangerous Of weapons-frames her
face and is fastened in her hair and around
her perfect shoulders with costly Jewels. The
fan assists challenges from dark eyes, and
proves that her monitors injunctions have
fallen unheeded on barren soil
Trumpets sound as the gate under the royal
box opens, and two marshals enter the list,
mounted on richly caparisoned Andalusian
steedS whose heads are half hidden under
their names. They clear the lists, report
readiness, flag is waved, and the music
sounds march as the chulos enter, escorting
two picadores The former, commonly
termed Cheats serve to irritate the bull
and divert his attention. The animal rushes
out, the ChulO futters a bright cloak right
and left, this unsteady motion retarding the
progress of the beast, and the former, on
reaching the barrier, leaps over. A
picadore is next attacked, horses are
killed and two men manned. Until now toros
has been the aggressOr, and the others
on the defensive, but amusement has reached
meTidian-enough carnage for today, and his
time must come. Fragosa comes forward,
and if any latent interest is betrayed it is dis
PEELED with her appearance. A typical Span
ish girl on a large scale, strongly developed
muscles, symmetrical limbs, rather sinewy,
and, consistent with this, keen, sure, pene-
trating eyes. Her costume borders on the
Turkish style, for convenience sake, and there
seems to he perfect understanding between
herself and the horse she rides. A thunder
GUS salutation greets her, to which she ap-
pears oblivious. She makes the banderilla
attack several times with swiftness and dex-
terity, then arms herself for the final office of
matadOre A sword is handed her, which she
cOnceals in the folds of a red banner. Twice
she advances, evading her combator's aims
and diagnosing her target well The third,
the sword disappears, is entered full length in
the shoulder of the victim and the cross at
the hilt alone shows. The creature rushes at
the matadore, dying agony stimulating its
fury, but each time the blows are received
on deceptive buckler. 1t is over, and by
vociferous chorus of laudation, extolling her
name, tumultuous applause, the Spaniards
manifest their appreciation of her art.
"What do you think of it, Lord Roswellr'
queries Dona Inez, as seated in the carriage
they wait for the throng to part ere they can
be driven to the city.
81 have keen relish for your hectic amuse-
ment-it intoXicates: il resnscitatos me